Think the planet's overheating is from overpopulation? Think again. Journalist Louisa Schneider (@louisaschneider.info) took to TikTok to debunk this popular — and dangerous — myth. "They want us to ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

A primary risk, as a population ages, is under-investment in children. As children make up an increasing share of the ...

UNITED NATIONS — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new ...

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John Wilmoth is Director, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Clare Menozzi, Lina Bassarsky and Danan Gu are Population Officers, UN DESA.

The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said. Scenes like ...

A shrinking population will have profound consequences. It will turn expectations about everything from housing to greenhouse ...

Once in a while, viral memes and outlandish Reddit claims turn out to be true. In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, 99% of the world’s population would experience ...